Virginia Tech fired coach James Johnson Monday, as announced in a press release by the school. Johnson served as the Hokies coach for two years and put in five years of assisant coach time with the team before that.

“I want to thank Coach Johnson for his dedication and hard work for our university and our basketball program over the past seven years,” Director of Athletics Whit Babcock said. “A change of this significance affects many people and is never taken lightly, but I felt a change and a new direction was necessary for the long term, best interest of our department.”

Johnson left the team in 2012 to take an assistant coaching position at Clemson, but returned to Blacksburg weeks later to take the head coaching position left by Seth Greenberg.

Johnson is 22-41 overall and 6-30 in the ACC. Both of his two ACC wins this season were over Miami (Fl.).